Improved boot-heel



UNITEDv STATES- ERASTUS NEVVHAQL'L,` 0F LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

`IMPROVED BGT-HL Specification forming pa-rt of Letters Patent No. 50,026, dated September i9, 1865.

To all'wliom 'it may concern: I

Be it' known that I, EnAsTUs NEWHALL, ot'

Lynn, in the county ol`-Essex and State ot.-

Massachusett's, hav'efjinvented Improvements' in vulcanized Heels; and. I do hereby declarev ihat thefo'llowing, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, isa description of my iucfe'ntion sufficient to-enable those skilled in lthe ari'. to practice it;

My'invention relates to nu improvement in vulcanized molded heels, of Arubber or equivulent material, for boots and shoes; and it con# sists iii theinsertion 'orelnbedment Within euch of 'such heel'sof a body or core of Wood of such size and thickness and so located inthe heel 4that seid core wiil'receive the nails which are or shoe through its driven from withina. boot sole and into-the heel, the wood therein acting to hold the nails more firmly than the rubber` would do, and serving also to @heupen the cost of'such heels and make them lighterin weight than they would be il' made of pure rubber, or of a, homogeneous mixture of rubber and ber or granular orpulverized matter.

' Of the drawings, Figure lrepresents one of my improved heels in longitudinal vertical sec- Jtion, and Fig. 2 represents across vertical sec-v tion of the same. v

The wood is representedby aand the rubber by b. A concave seat is seen at l l, and ,the flange around it is marked 2 2. 1

the rubber in the proper posiiion in ythe molds in which the rubber is vuleenized,and the `Vulcan'ization. is then performed in the well known wey.

The amount of rubber on either side ot' the Y wood core 'may be varied to conform to the ,requirements of shoe-manufactmers-ns, for

exemple, considerable rubber muy be placed beneath the wood to make an elastic, yielding tread.

Where a soft, yielding treed is not desired nai-ls or iiolbs may be driven throughthe tread fece 0f the rubber into the wood, so as to leasen the weer oi' the hee-l.

I claim- The construction of u heel for boots o r shoes of' vulcanized rubber or its compounds or other vulcanizeble material, with u. core of wood, su b stantially as and for the purpose specified.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto sel. my hund this 27th dey of Juiy,fA.D.l865.

ERASTUS NEWHA LL,

i Witnesses:

el. B. C'RosBY, if. GoULn. 

